The cuestionamiento to Cuban the political and electoral
system, constitutes one of the fundamental pillars of the enemy campaign
against our country, lidereada by the United States. The activity
against Cuba in the matter of democracy and human rights, not only
constitutes the main tool of the United States to try to?legitimar "its
policy of hostility and aggression towards Cuba; but that also responds
to the interest of the main countries capitalist industrialized to
impose to the countries developing a model of political organization
who facilitates the domination.

In their campaign against Cuba, Washington tries to demonstrate the
mutual incompatibility of the political system that establishes the
Constitution of the country with the norms internationally accepted
in the matter of democracy and human rights, and to make the image
of a intolerante society, that does not allow to the minimum diversity
and political plurality. For it she counts on powerful instruments
of propaganda and numerous resources that uses for the recruitment,
organization and financing of contrarrevolucionarios grupúsculos,
which presents/displays like political?oposición, as much inside
as outside the country.

The manipulation of the concept of the
democracy by the main western powers has reached very dangerous magnitudes
recently. Those that they separate from the democratic model which
they praise, of the patterns and values that they promote, they are
not only put under the cuestionamiento and the demonización
through the propaganda and the institutions international that control
the call?defensa of the democracy, but that in addition becomes potentials?víctimas?
of the intervention doctrine that develops the imperialistic powers.

Cuba defends and supports the right from
the towns to the free determination, recognized internationally like
an inalienable right in the consensus reached in the World-wide Conference
of Human rights, celebrated in Vienna, in 1993. In the own Declaration
and Program of Action of Vienna one settled down, also, that?la democracy
is based on the will of the town, freely expressed, to determine
his own political, economic, social and cultural regime, and in his
total participation in all the aspects of the life, and the importance
was recognized?de the national and regional particularitities, as
well as of the diverse historical, cultural and religious patrimonies.

He is on the base of these postulates,
ignored openly by those who try to impose his models like?únicos,
that the Cuban political system is elevated, a model selected and
defended by own Cuban, the genuinely native and authentic one, based
on the equality and solidarity between the men and women, in independence,
the sovereignty and social justice.

Our country either knew the model that
today tries to impose to him, or lived the sad experience on the?pluripartidista
system? and?representativo? that it prescribed the United States
to him, and that brought like consequence the external dependency,
the corruption, the illiteracy and the poverty of ample sectors of
the population, racism, in summary, the complete negation of the
most elementary individual and collective rights, including the right
to truely free and democratic elections.

This system and the permanent North American
injerencista policy, not only procreated governors corrupt thieves
and, but who developed dictatorships tiránicas and killer,
promoted and supported directly by the government of the United States.

By all it, the Cuban Revolution could
not assume this system if truely it wanted to solve the evils inherited
product of this one. Of this form, the country was involved in designing
its own model, for which hurgó in its own roots and went to
the social thought, preclearest patriotic humanist and of próceres
of the Cuban nation.

First that would be to emphasize, then,
to explain the Cuban political system, it is that our model is not
concerned, was never a copy of the Soviet model nor of the existing
one in the socialist countries at that moment, since they wanted
to make see the enemies of the Revolution. The political system of
Cuba is born and it corresponds with happening of the historical
evolution of the politicosocial process of the Cuban nation, with
its successes and errors, their advances and backward movements.
The fact that the formation and development of the Cuban nation during
his hardly 130 years of existence it has faced practically such external
and internal factors, favored a coherent history, allowing to develop
own the idea to construct a nation forged by the Cubans.

The existence of a single party in the
Cuban system is certain, among others, by historical and contemporary
factors. Our Party, is the historical continuity of the Cuban Revolutionary
Party founded by Jose
Martí to unite to all the town with the objective to
reach the absolute independence of Cuba. Those factors that gave
origin to this Party, to release to Cuba and to prevent their annexation
to the United States, are such that they are present today when our
town faces iron a blockade economic, commercial and financial and
other hostile actions that they have like objective to demote the
government and to destroy the system restored in the country by sovereign
decision of all the Cubans.

Our Party develops its work by means of
the persuasion, the narrow conviction and in and permanent entailment
with the masses, and the decisions that it makes are solely of obligatory
fulfillment for their militants. It is not an electoral party and
it is prohibited to him to name candidates, but not only to participate
in any other moment of the electoral process. This conception and
this practice, guarantee that in a system where a single party exists,
the amplest plurality of opinions is developed and prevails.

Characteristics of Cuban the political
and electoral system:

1 Universal, automatic and gratuitous
Inscription of all the citizens with right to the vote, as of the
16 years of age.

2 Postulation of the candidates directly
by the own voters in public assemblies (in many countries those are
the political parties that name the candidates).

4 Total cleaning and transparency in the
elections. The ballot boxes are guarded by children and young pioneers,
they have been sealed in the presence of the population, and the
count of the votes for of public way, being able to participate the
national and foreign press, diplomatic, tourists and all the one
that wishes it.

5 Obligation of which all the elect ones
are it by majority. The candidate is only elect if he obtains more
from 50% of the emitted valid votes. If this result is not reached
in the first return, will go to second both that more votes obtained.

6 The vote is free, equal and secret.
All the Cuban citizens have the right to choose and to be chosen.
Since there is list of no parties, one vows directly by the candidate
who is desired.

7 All the representative organs of the
Power of the State are chosen and renewable.

8 All the chosen ones must render account
of their performance.

9 All the chosen ones can at any time
be revoked of their mandate.

10- The deputies and delegates are not
professional, therefore they do not receive wage.

11- Participation discharge of the town
in the elections. In all the electoral processes that have been celebrated
from year 1976, they have participated more in 95% of the voters.
In the last elections for Deputies in 1998 they voted a 98.35% of
the voters, were valid 94.98% from the emitted votes, were annulled
1.66% of the tickets and deposited in target only 3,36%.

13- The integration of the Parliament
is representative of the most dissimilar sectors of the Cuban society.

14- A deputy by each 20 000 inhabitants,
or greater fraction of 10 000 chooses themselves. All the municipal
territories are represented in the National Assembly, and the nucleus
bases of the system, the electoral circumscription, participates
actively in its composition. Each municipality will choose like minimum
two deputies, and from that number, so many deputies will choose
themselves proportionally as inhabitants exist. 50 % of the deputies
must be delegated of the electoral circumscriptions, which must live
in the territory on the same one.

15- The National Assembly chooses, of
between its Deputies, to the Council of State and the President of
the same one. The President of the Council of State is Chief of State
and Head of Government. It means that the Head of the Cuban Government
must be put under two electoral processes: first it must be elect
like Deputy by the population, by the free vote, direct and secret,
and later by the Deputies, also by the free, direct and secret vote.

16- To the being the National Assembly
the Supreme Organ of the Power of the State and to be subordinated
her the legislative, executive and judicial functions to him, the
Government and Chief of State cannot dissolve it.

17- The legislative initiative is patrimony
of multiple actors of the society, not only of the deputies, the
Supreme Court and the Office of the public prosecutor, but also of
the union, student organizations, of women, social and of the own
citizens, requiring itself in this case who exercise the legislative
initiative 10 000 citizens like minimum which they have the condition
of voters.

18- The laws are put under the majority
vote of the Deputies. The specific thing of the Cuban method is that
a law does not take to the discussion of the Plenary one until as
much, by means of consultations reiterated to the deputies and considering
the proposals that have done, it is demonstrated that clearly the
majority consent for its discussion and approval exists. The application
of this concept acquires greater relevance when it is the participation
of the population, jointly with the deputies, in the analysis and
discussion of strategic subjects. In those occasions the Parliament
is transferred to the labor, student centers and farmers, becoming
reality the direct and participativa democracy.